Wikipedia Smickapedia

This week Wikipedia came to bother me. “All” associations should have a presence in Wikipedia, right? Aren’t we told that at conferences and in publications? Isn’t it “common knowledge” among the social media savvy? (Who knows, maybe it out of vogue now, it’s been a few months since I attended a conference). It’s on my [...]

Tea Drinker in a Coffee Word

Some of you may have noticed that I fell into a pretty deep blogging slump. I could list a host of reasons why, but the truth is I started finding it hard to think of “CAE” things to write about.
I really don’t deal with a lot of the issues I learned about when studying for [...]

How Much Information Should Be Free?

Recently I convinced my association to change the way we publish our magazine online. In the past, we would convert a portion of the magazine to a text file and build individual html pages for each article—reformatting as we went along.
As the person who did this, I can tell you it was a time consuming [...]

Help Me to Help My Bloggers

Instead of sharing my thoughts, I need your suggestions.
My association’s blog is in its infancy and the bloggers who are participating are doing great and really working hard to make the new blog a success. The problem I am having is that a few of them really don’t understand what a blog is and what [...]

What Do They Call Bloggers Block Anyway?

For the past few days I just couldn’t come up with anything to write. It was driving me crazy. The funny thing is, I noticed the bloggers on my association’s website must be having the same problem (there are zero new threads for the past week). 
We all must be suffering from bloggers block.
To combat what’s [...]

CAE Study Tip: Write, Wiki, Whatever

Write out what you learn while studying for the CAE exam. Like talking out loud, this also helps cement the ideas in your head.  I guess it opens up another part of your brain to the information.
I made flashcards for myself with key concepts on them. I never actually went back and studied what I [...]